Division 16 Women in Psychology (WIP) committee is seeking new members to serve a three year term on the committee.
Purpose and Goals of WIP
The Committee on Women in School Psychology seeks to facilitate awareness of issues relevant to women and school psychology. A major purpose of the Committee is to facilitate a process of enrichment by mainstreaming research and theory from the psychology of women with school psychology and, further by developing a literature to gender and the profession and practice of School Psychology. In addition, the Committee will provide a means of increasing awareness and raising issues relevant to sex, gender, and School Psychology.
The goals of the Committee include:
A. Continue to pursue and organize special topical issues for professional journals on women in School Psychology.
B. Liaison with APA’s Committee on Women in Psychology.
C. Utilize the Division’s Newsletter, The School Psychologist, to promote the interest of women in school psychology and to increase their active participation in School Psychology.
II. Structure
The Committee has a chairperson and an unspecified number of members. The Chairperson is appointed by the Vice President for Social and Ethical Responsibility and Ethnic Minority (SEREMA) Affairs for a three-year-term. The committee should include 5 additional individuals who will serve for a three-year term. An individual may serve no more than 2-consecutive terms. When a committee member resigns or rotates off of the committee, the chairperson, in collaboration with the VP-SEREMA, will identify a new committee member.
If you wish to submit interest, please send a CV and a short statement of interest to Jorge E. Gonzalez at jgonza14@trinity.edu.